Little Coconut Zucchini Breads

Our oven gave up on life just before New Years. It was not a sad loss, not by any stretch. Since we moved into this place we now call our home, the oven has been nothing but trouble. It has cost us a small fortune in call out fees and maintenance costs and became a bit of a fire hazard. It took ages to heat up and seemed to do a better job of heating up the kitchen than actually cooking the food, was riddled with hot spots and, in its final moment of glory, launched frightening blue sparks out the back of it and almost caused some serious damage. That was it, time to move on!

With the chaos of New Years behind us we finally settled on a new model and the anxious wait began for its arrival. As we awaited the arrival of our new beast all I could think about was baking, every meal idea involved an oven in some way – lasagna, baked potatoes, roast veg salad, even fritatta’s are tricky without an oven. By Thursday though our wait was over and it was time to get down to the serious business of baking. We didn’t waste any time, first off the bat was Paul’s famous homemade pizza, followed closely by fresh bread and bread rolls. Then I made a pumpkin lasagna (it’s really all I could think about!) which went down an absolute treat, and last but not least were these gorgeous little cakes made with the growing glut of zucchini’s on the kitchen bench.

I’ve based these cakes on a recipe I picked up over at Two Peas in their Pod a little while ago. It is a great recipe, the zucchini coconut flavour combo is great and overall it is low in fat and sugar with a great little boost of protein to help bring down the GI rating. I baked little loaves because I wanted to have a play with my new mini loaf tin but this is easily done as a full-sized cake by doubling the cooking time.

i could not do without my oven – sometimes i think it is my favourite kitchen tool. and not to have it – all you would want to do is bake and roast!
not quite at glut stage yet but i do love zucchini cakes when the pile becomes insurmountable 🙂
and i too am in love with the mini loaf size.